Daily medical progression cinches my radioactive body.
“Genius” doctors fumble around sophisticatedly during
dissection, severing skin-to-skin connections
using surgical tools coated in
hopeful cyanotic diatribe.
Literate in Braille teratoma, I amply touch
my crusty pie-like skin and decipher
evidence of failure
with disappointed pruny fingers
instead.
>>It’s alive. I’m dying.<<
The doctors’ ebullient apathy,
attributed to belief in predestined cosmos,
creates ambivalence against my inherited
[universally inherent]
cancer massacre aspirations.
So, the timeless fantasy retreats back into the
masochistic imagination, where it lays to waste.
Author notes
Prompt: Use all 20 words.
1) Apathy
2) Masochistic
3) Decipher
4) Timeless
5) Cosmos
6) Connection
7) Ambivalent
8) Progression
9) Genius
10) Imagination
11) diatribe
12) teratoma
13) massacre
14) dissection
15) prune
16) ebullient
17) pie
18) braille
19) inheritance
20) cinch
A contest entry
- The Word Bank from "H" "E" Double Hockey Sticks by Abby Apathy..
15750 points, ended January 27, 2008, 15 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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lately the care has been taken out of health don't you think? All they want is our money. Congrats on your silver trophy.
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This is brilliant. Definitely a consideration, yes, most definitely.
Sorry I am so short of words, my brain is bouncing within my head. heh
~Steve -
ah.. speechless. this is my favorite. i want this one to win gold.
let's see if steve goes along with it...
Abby
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Wow, Abby! Thanks so much!
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